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Enticing New Employees With Corporate Stability

Employment is on the rise and with it, the return to attractive compensation packages and salary levels. After several down years in the employment market that was the result of the normalization of an inflated stock market and the beginning of the War on Terror, employers are constructing compensation packages...

Tags: Compensation, Employee, Employment, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Venture Capital, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups

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The Role of Equity in Employment Noncompetition Cases

This paper will explain the evolution of restrictive covenants in the employment setting and then analyze an overlooked aspect of covenant-not-to-compete enforceability - the role of equitable doctrines. The second part of this article describes the genesis of postemployment restrictions and the surrounding jurisprudence. The third part of this paper...

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Touchstone Investments Closes Navellier Deal for International Growth Fund

Touchstone Adds International Growth Fund to Its Lineup CINCINNATI, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Investments expanded its strategic partnership with Navellier & Associates this week by merging the existing assets of the Navellier Millennium International Growth Fund into the new Touchstone International Growth Fund. While...

Articles 2008-09-29

Progressive Named One of the "Best Places to Launch a Career"

Auto Insurance Company Honored by BusinessWeek Magazine Three Years in a Row MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio -- Recent college graduates not sure where to start their job search just got a little extra help from BusinessWeek magazine. The publication recently announced its annual list of Best Places to Launch...

Articles 2008-09-29

Financial Community Rallies for Wounded Veterans Through Operation Healing Freedom

McCormick Foundation, program partner, matches funds raised and grants $1.4 million to 14 agencies across the nation in first round CHICAGO, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The McCormick Foundation's Board of Directors has approved more than $1.4 million in grants to nonprofit organizations serving veterans as part of...

Articles 2008-09-26

Behringer Harvard Acquires Premier Houston Office Tower

DALLAS, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Behringer Harvard announced today its acquisition of One BriarLake Plaza, a 20-story tower that provides more than half a million square feet of office space and is widely recognized as one of the top office properties in Houston. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050907/DABEHHARLOGO) ...

Articles 2008-09-26

New AHA/Diversified Survey Reveals Overhaul of 403 Regulations Impacting Retirement Plans for Healthcare Sector more than the Pension Protection Act of 2006

Contrary to Reports, 78% of Healthcare Employers Anticipate No Change to their Defined Benefit Plan PURCHASE, N.Y. -- Just one year after the IRS issued an extensive overhaul of 403b regulations, a recent study reveals that they are impacting healthcare employers' decisions about their retirement plan administration even...

Articles 2008-09-25

Verizon Wireless Named as a Working Mother 100 Best Company for the Eighth Consecutive Year

Only Wireless Company Honored for Family-Friendly Benefits BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- For the eighth consecutive year, Verizon Wireless has been named one of the 2008 Working Mother 100 Best Companies. Verizon Wireless, the only wireless carrier to be honored by Working Mother...

Articles 2008-09-23

Nomura Continues Global Push With Lehman's European Equities and Investment Banking Businesses

TOKYO and LONDON, September 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nomura, the pre-eminent Asian-based investment bank, today announced it had reached an agreement to acquire the European and Middle Eastern equities and investment banking operations of Lehman Brothers. The acquisition will provide Nomura with a market leading equities and investment...

Articles 2008-09-23

Gathering the real data from creative industries graduates one year out

University student outcome data in Australia is collected via the Graduate Destination Survey component of the Australian Graduate Survey at the referent date three months post-graduation. This timeline gives consideration to graduates to enter directly into traditional vocations. For graduates from non-traditional areas and/or with non-traditional career...

Articles 2008-09-22

At my desk

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...

Articles 2008-09-22

Japan's Nomura confirms to buy Lehman Asia ops

TOKYO AFP — Top Japanese brokerage group Nomura Holdings Inc. confirmed on Monday that it had won a deal to buy all Asian operations of collapsed US investment firm Lehman Brothers. Nomura Holdings said it would offer employment to all 3,000 Lehman Brothers' workers in Asia. ...

Articles 2008-09-22

Report Reveals Substantial State-Level Job Gains From New Nuclear Construction

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A substantial program of new investment in nuclear energy infrastructure will generate peak employment of 350,000 and cumulative GDP of $542 billion over twenty years, according to a report prepared by Oxford Economics for the American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness. These benefits will...

Articles 2008-09-22

Pension safety

THOUSANDS of council staff workers have been told their pension plans are safe despite the credit crunch. But if the financial markets do not improve then council tax may rise and cash may be diverted from frontline services to fund retirement schemes, which pay out more than pounds...

Articles 2008-09-22

Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. Requests Court Approval to Commence Sale Process to Sell the Company's Operating Entities; Company Continues to Conduct Business Operations

DALLAS -- Home Interiors & Gifts, Inc. will seek approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas, to sell the company's operating entities. The board of directors determined that a sale of assets at market value will yield the highest and best return for stakeholders. The company has...

Articles 2008-09-22

Campbell Adds New Soup Line in Maxton, North Carolina; Expansion Will Create 50 New Jobs

CAMDEN, N.J. -- Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) today announced plans to invest in its Maxton, North Carolina manufacturing facility by adding state-of-the-art soup production equipment. The multi-million dollar investment in Maxton will enable Campbell to produce ready-to-serve soups and broths packaged in cartons. In addition to the new equipment, the...

Articles 2008-09-22

Japan's Nomura to buy Lehman Asian ops: sources

TOKYO AFP — Top Japanese brokerage group Nomura Holdings has won a deal to buy the entire Asian operations of failed US investment firm Lehman Brothers Holdings, two sources said on Monday. "It should become official later today," one of the sources told Dow Jones Newswires, declining to...

Articles 2008-09-22

PWC close to deal to sell Lehman's European assets

The administrator to the European business of bankrupt US investment bank Lehman Brothers, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, was last night locked in negotiations with two rival bidders over the sale of parts of the business. The first bidder is understood to be Barclays Bank, which has already agreed to buy...

Articles 2008-09-22

Commentary: How does your 401(k) communication measure up?

How does your 401k plan communicate investment information to your employees? Do you provide communications to help employees increase deferrals? How about overall participation -- do you encourage non- participants to enroll in the plan? If you'd like...

Articles 2008-09-22

Three 'credible' buyers circling Lehman Brothers in London

Three "credible" parties are interested in buying the London- based investment banking arm of Lehman Brothers, the US finance giant which was declared bankrupt last week. Tony Lomas, administrator at PricewaterhouseCoopers PWC for Lehman Brothers International Europe, said on Friday that he had received offers of interest...

Articles 2008-09-21